GOOD ADVIOS TO SISTERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1460, 8 November 1879, Page 26

GOOD ADVIOS TO SISTERS.

(By Elvc in the San Francisco Bulletin)

Sistors are too often wrapped up ia their own pursuits and enjoyments. They forget to study hcv to please and win their brothers' confidence, and gradually drifting apart, their lives hw3 almost separate aims. With no loviag hand to hold them back, the brothers' become wild and dissipated, bringing sorrow to the heaita that love them, yet have no power to reclaim them, It is such an easy thing for young men to drift into daDgeroua places, or good for nothing company, if they have no horns enjoyments furnished them, or no one to go with them to any pleasant places of amusement. When you come together seek (o entertain and interest each other. Plan simple pleasures, encourage them in all endeavours to be polite and well mannered. Give them no chance to feel anything but a noble pride in their sisters, who then can easily sbimulite their ambition, suppress their salfiahneßS, foster higher atom, and tone down their whole character. Pray, remember, you are daily exirting an uaconscioua iniluence over young men. Let it be such a sunny, happy, lovely influence that ita saving power shall bo felb not only in your own homo, but outside of it continually, for it lies within your power to make noble and worthy men of your brothers, of whom you can be justly proud, feeling i hit no Belf -denial has bean too great, or no sacrifice of your own perasnal pleasures regretted. If you can save them from itllo dissipations and keep them from harmful contact with bad company — if ycix can ba patient, kind, f < rbearing, and loving — you will have little need to blush for a brother's shame. No stain will rest upon their name, and their guardian angels will occupy a holy place in their memories when they leave their presence to wander forth from the home roof and all its tender blessed influences.

FASHION GOSSIP.

Nearly all the heavy Bilks are now made with a thinner silk under-skirt. It's an oldfashioned idea that .expensive silk must be used entire, and as each costumo is supposed to be a mingling of heavy silk with satin, or velvet, or pekin, with rich "passementeries, why the under skirt, or skirt proper, should also be o£ tho same, while it is merely a foundation upon which to placo tho trim., inings, no oae can anowev reasonably.

A dreadful prospect is shadowed forth in *n American 'exchange in the following: — " We are to have no more pretty clinging Blurts. Crinoline, that has been gradually inflating during the summer, is now seen in fall expansion ; not as yet upon all ladies— for some are independent enough to laugh at fashionable folly, and only gradually merge into its adoption. It is to ba devoutly prayed for that this odious revival will not obtain a footing in the Colonies. Vest-forms (says Blanche, in Saturday Night) are just aa popular as ever, only the vest is often outlined upon the waist proper, and there arc elegant vests of silk, satin, and velvet, beautifully, embroidered in colours ; while the. richest and most expensive are thoso in beaded passementerie. These novelties are beautifully made— very narrow, but shapely. • A pretty oostume is thu3 described by tho same lady :— Costume of a deep rich shade of blue, formed of serga, shot velvet, and embroidery in shades of blue, from the palest to the deepest. The embroidery outlined a narrow vest, the cuffs upon the sleeves, front of tablier, and the tabs' that formed the basque back, two of longer' thin the rest, were real The tabliar and back of basque edged with mott'e 1 knotted fringe, of all the shades of the blue used. Tbe velvet formed side-paneh upot th«j skirts, and mingled' with tho sick-pleating alternately upon the lower skirts. Mice, rats, and caterpillers are much in vogue in Paris for trimming hats this year.g